botcher

Example Sentences

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One of the most effective hucksters on eastern TV is a bashful botcher who muffs his lines, meanders off-camera, even mumbles his apologies for intruding on TViewers' time.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher.

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner.

From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor

I may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

A certain critic finds fault with Circe because she repeats the warning of Tiresias, and he holds that some botcher or editor, not Homer, transferred the passage from one place to the other.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques